Re: passing m-files as a function argument

[parigigi]

Goodevening,


Cool! This worked perfectly....


Thanks a lot!

Parigigi



David Grundberg-3 wrote:
> 
> parigigi wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>>
>> I am currently using a commercial software that is giving me in output
>> several m-files as a results of different simulations. I would like to do
>> the same analysis on each m-files. So I want to write a function that
>> accepts a filename as an argument. Lets suppose that I want to apply
>> 'myanalysis' function on a single output m-file of this commercial
>> software.
>> I want something that allows me to do:
>>
>> myanalysis (output_m-file_name,parameter);
>>
>> At a certain point inside this function I want to load this m-file as
>> following:
>>
>> output_m-file_name;
>>
>> ecc...
>>
>>
>> I still don't understand how to pass a m-file name as an argument. I
>> tried
>> with quotas " ' ", without, with "@" but nothing worked... Where am I
>> wrong?
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot to everyone
>>   
> 
> Is the output m-file a function file or a script file? If it's a script 
> file you can load it by running eval('foobar') where yopu have a script 
> file saved as foobar.m
> 
> try something like
> 
> function myanalysis (filename, parameter)
>   name = filename(1:end-2)
>   printf ("Running %s\n", name);
>   eval (name)
> 
>   ....
> 
> endfunction
> 
> in a file called myanalysis.m.
> 
> You should then be able to run myanalysis ('foobar.m')
> 
> Note that you need to have foobar.m in the Octave search path.
> 
> hth
> David
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